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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
In actuality, the main issue that Halifax has is that "heritage" is a designation in name only, without much else involved. It doesn't matter if a building is "significant" or not, if there's a business case to tear it down, then it will probably happen. I don't really see a lot of "insignificant" buildings being saved "just because they are old", rather I see several old buildings not being torn down because there is not enough money to be made in tearing them down and redeveloping, and several being torn down because there is.
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Bingo. Or, we see them being torn down because of a lack of imagination within the development community. Many developers in Halifax are quite a bit behind the curve when it comes to taking advantage of the marketability and rarity of heritage buildings in their developments--from a business perspective, heritage is a non-renewable and diminishing resource. Destroying historic buildings just to gain an additional fraction of develop-able land on a large building parcel is nuts, and it doesn't happen in most cities with nearly the frequency it does here.